Reading, dreaming and planning holidays with your friends has got to be good for the spirits.

To help your armchair adventures, Independent Hostels UK are giving away copies of their 2020 Hostel Guide. Featuring 420 unique places to stay in stunning locations all over the UK, the guide is fascinating and inspirational reading for all adventurous souls.

From cosmopolitan cities to the remotest corners of the country you can find hostels and bunkhouses all over the UK. Most reflect their surrounding and the interests of their owners and are ideal for a whole host of activities from star gazing to caving, mountain biking to wildlife watching. Many are quirky; you can stay in a cell of a former jail, in a railway carriage on a station in a remote crofting community, at a gothic mansion run as an education centre for sustainable living, or in Welsh castle once home to a world famous opera singer.